Re: Extensions calling C++

I agree with Sascha on this one. .cpp looks like "C Preprocesor" to me... One reason: man cpp On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Zeev Suraski wrote the following to Sascha Schumann : > At 23:47 09/07/2000, Sascha Schumann wrote: > >On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Zeev Suraski wrote: > > > > > At 23:08 09/07/2000, Sascha Schumann wrote: > > > >.cpp sucks, because cpp is the C preprocessor. > > > > > > Is that a common convention? I don't think gcc generates .cpp files (you > > > choose which file to redirect it to..?) > > > >Nope, it is just the name which is misleading. Imagine a file called > >foo.lex which is handled by yacc. > > Well, I for once would have never been mislead by .cpp; I suspect most > others would also expect .cpp to be C++ and not a preprocessed C file, > going all the way back to the days of Turbo C++. > > What do the rest of you think? > > Zeev > -- > Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> http://www.zend.com/ > > >